Further to the misguided, disastrous amendments to the Digital Economy Bill brought in earlier in the week, Thursday saw the situation – somehow – get even worse, with the attempt to outlaw ‘web lockers’ such as YounSendIt and Dropbox. Cory Doctorow explains it here. Web lockers enable people to upload […]
Quick post, more thoughts to come later… To paraphrase a Michael Bay film, this shit just got real. Both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats are positing an amendment to the bill that takes it into even scarier territory, enabling mass censorship of websites based on unsubstatiated claims of copyright […]
A writer I discovered at the SFX Weekender last month, Mark Charan Newton, writes a blog containing all sorts of useful information for writers. It’s well worth bookmarking if you’re into that kind of thing. Something else that emerged from the SFX Weekender was Newton’s idea (well, China Mieville’s idea, […]
Back to the word count subject prefixes for me, as I continue work on Of Rock And Earth, the novel that I began as something of an experiment for 2009’s NaNoWriMo. I successfully hit the 50,000 word limit by the end of November, which meant I’d achieved my first ever […]
The Heavy Rain demo appeared for the PS3 recently, marking the first game from David Cage since 2005’s Fahrenheit. (more…)
So, I’ve rejiggled this website. What was once a modest blog with a single ‘About’ page has now become a fully fledged mini-portfolio, with handy links to my various writings and filmy projects all neatly arranged in the menu up top. I’ll be doing my best to keep everything up-to-date, […]
For the last two weeks we’ve been gallivanting about on holiday, taking in rather diverse locations and activities. Come to the end of it and I’m rather more knackered than I was at the start, which possibly wasn’t the plan, but otherwise a good time was had by all. Let’s […]
Just a quick one, as the iPhone wordpress app managed to lose my longer post earlier. Currently in the Marriott at Gatwick airport, which is a very pleasant hotel – especially compared to Pontins, where I spent my weekend (listen to a podcast on that, here) – before flying to […]
Regardless of your opinion on the Iraq war, it seems to be generally agreed that there was some serious fudging over the evidence that led to war as well as the flip-flop interpretation of the laws indicating whether it was a legal invasion or not. Tony Blair doesn’t see it […]
The Star Trek Online beta finished this week, prior to the official launch in February. My brief time with it raised familiar questions (more…)
